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 Are the Scala programs faster?

Do the Scala programs use optimized assembly code libraries? Are they small simple programs or very optimized programs? Do the Scala programs use a fraction of the time used by other programs or do they use several times more?


 Scala used what fraction? used how many times more? 
Programs Time Memory Code Reduced N
↓ binary-trees±±
↓ recursive±±
↓ spectral-norm±±
↓ partial-sums±±
↓ fasta±±
↓ n-body±±
↓ k-nucleotide±±±
↓ nsieve±±±
↓ mandelbrot±±
↓ nsieve-bits±±±
↓ fannkuch±
↓ regex-dna±±
↓ reverse-complement±
↓ pidigits1/2

± look at the measurements and then look at the programs.

 Are the Scala programs faster?

Program & Logs CPU secs Elapsed secs Memory KB Code B ~ CPU Load
 binary-trees 
Scala4.8054,684536  
Java 6 -server6.8926,808603  
 recursive 
Scala6.5320,184411  
Java 6 -server6.7612,044427  
 spectral-norm 
Scala24.6519,576500  
Java 6 -server24.0110,008514  
 partial-sums 
Scala10.0619,684485  
Java 6 -server9.158,488474  
 fasta 
Scala23.8719,5961207  
Java 6 -server21.469,1841240  
 n-body 
Scala16.4320,7961420  
Java 6 -server14.7511,5241424  
 k-nucleotide 
Scala17.8654,5641039  
Java 6 -server15.8970,9641052  
 nsieve 
Scala2.9824,380392  
Java 6 -server2.2520,592296  
 mandelbrot 
Scala4.3419,332454  
Java 6 -server3.2411,092623  
 nsieve-bits 
Scala6.9219,796390  
Java 6 -server5.0413,364523  
 fannkuch 
Scala16.9219,188473  
Java 6 -server11.058,884555  
 regex-dna 
Scala12.4192,956663  
Java 6 -server7.8175,892921  
 reverse-complement 
Scala2.4253,4321086  
Java 6 -server1.3058,932592  
 pidigits 
Scala11.5925,804461  
Java 6 -server1.928,992938  
 chameneos-redux
ScalaFailed
 sum-file
ScalaFailed

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